Opera Software launches Opera Mini technology
August 11th, 2005 Leave a comment Visited 62 times, 1 so far today
Opera Software launches Opera Mini technology
Opera Software are the pioneers in developing web browser solutions for small screen devices. They already make their Opera Web Browser available for some of the most popular mobile platforms available around and their latest initiative is to provide solutions to the cheaper mobile devices, which are not capable of running the full-fledged web browser applications.
Their latest offering Opera Mini technology is based on the Java 2 Mobile Edition standards and it is a cellular phone client and server that make it possible to access web pages with low-end cellular phones running a Java-based application platform. It might become a great way to target the owners of 700 million low- and mid-tier mobile phones, which supports Java.
The application uses the java language to display web pages instead of the phone’s platform making it a universal application. Opera Mini server pre-processes the page before sending it to the client on the phone. This enables the pages to be displayed on mobile phones not capable of supporting the HTML pages by themselves.
Jon S. von Tetzchner, chief executive of Opera Software said in press statement: “Mobile Web surfing has until now been limited to more advanced phones that are capable of running a browser. With Opera Mini, the phone only has to run a small Java-client and the rest is taken care of by the remotely located Opera Mini server.”
The application is currently in beta and the more widely availability is expected to happen in the coming days as the testing is done.
Relevant Links:
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Opera Press Release
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August 17th, 2005 at 07:18 pm
I just downloaded the Opera mini browser !
I live in Norway, had to send an sms to the television company TV2 in Norway. Recieved an sms with download link. The download server found the mini version that is best for my phone.
This program works very good. I can surf the web via wap settings. Other web readers on my phone needed to use the internet settings, here in Norway the internet traffic via phone is much more expensive than wap traffic!
So now I can navigate the web in a very fast way (since there is a server that does all the compressing work).
My operator takes maximum kr 1,50 for each day on wap, and since Opera mini uses only wap traffic ( because i deleted internett traffic settings), i save a lot of money. Now i can surf the web for only kr 1,50,- a day (= 0,25 â?¬ or 0,15 GBP !!).
Yes, i believe the wap traffic price here in Norway is very good. Most comanies here do have an upper limit for how much they charge wap traffic each day, that does the wap much more attractive than before, when people could get a big wap bill surprise.
Believe me, the Opera mini is the best i ever seen on a ordinary cell phone! I have tried many other web browser for my phone, that do support internet settings too, but al other software make horrible pages and a waste of time.